What ever happened to the

(R)Evolution?

Casa Forte began on the gritty backstreets of Fitzroy in 1989. As we grew, our work expanded from local print media to international interior design, and along the way we’ve helped brands of all sizes fight for love and attention. We don’t push a house style, we tune in to your style. We’re hands-on experts at integrating brands across all mediums... no beer fonts... no bullshit.

INTERIOR DESIGN

ENGAGE WITH BRANDED ENVIRONMENTS

Creating an environment that is stimulating, easy to navigate, and engaging enough for an audience that is constantly on the go, is crucial in developing brand love and loyalty. We apply restrained layers of brand elements, starting with colour, image and typography until the right composition is achieved. Once the overall brand skin has been fully developed, we deliver a complete interior design solution, starting with extensive and precise documentation followed by perfectly matched fixtures and finishes for your new brand environment. Casa Forte assembles a fully integrated interior design package for your business, expressing your brand’s qualities, personality, and individuality throughout your space.

Packaging

GO ON, PICK ME UP, HOW CAN YOU RESIST?

Packaging is the physical form or presence of your brand, and it’s a tough job for a little box. No matter what form your packaging takes, it has to activate the senses, and speak to your customers from the shelf. Successful package design compels browsers to look at your packaged product, pick it up, feel, hold, touch, smell, and taste it. We believe great packaging converts browsers into buyers. Our expertly crafted packaging solutions are aligned to your customers’ aspirations. From concept to production and anywhere in between, we deliver the creative and technical expertise you need to get your brand packs standing out and selling.

Signage

TAKE THE FIRST STEP, SHOW ME THE WAY

When it comes to applying your brand to the global environment, you want to own as much of the local Brandscape as possible. Casa Forte provides the key ingredients for successful brand implementation through expert design, documentation and management across the essential signage categories of 2D to 3D brand conversion, architectural signage, wayfinding, and large format brand-walling. By designing easy to use and flexible guidelines and systems, we ensure your team has no problem in implementing your brand in future tenancies, and your customers’ journey to your front door is always positive and effortless.

Identity

START WITH A STORY, CREATE A CONNECTION

A logo can reflect your business personality. It’s your badge of honour, and like it or not, you’ll be judged by it… but it’s not your brand yet. Using a tight framework, we identify the best mediums to create and present your brands identity platform. Our creative, graphic, copywriting and campaign development provides you with a consistent attitude across all marketing mediums including corporate livery, press advertising, direct marketing, and experiential campaigns. When you’re ready to mix it in the big league, we create your brand guidelines, a crucial tool for delivering your identity platform with ultimate consistency, and with the strongest impact possible without confusion or delay.

DIGITAL BRANDS

BIG BRANDS FIT FOR THE SMALL SCREEN

Your brand should be found anywhere your customers go looking for it. Everyone knows how important SEO, CMS and Social Media are, but don’t get hung up on them, they’re only short stops on your brand’s road map to success. Sure, we’re concerned with what a website or app looks like, and we don't mind tweaking custom code, but our priority is with how your brand is going to perform in an environment in which almost everyone is online almost all of the time. There might be a million searches for ‘little black dress’, but If you want to own ‘little black dress’ on the web and mobile, sell it to your customers before they go online.

3D Brands

IDEAS FROM YOUR MIND TO YOUR HANDS

You’ve got a whimsical idea in your head and it’s taking too long to materialise. Time to talk to us about creating a real product, an object ready for market testing and future manufacturing. Our creative and technical development covers the areas of market research and concept development, 3D Rendering and CAD modelling through to all forms of technical documentation and specification. Our highest priority is your product’s aesthetic and brand appeal, and our designs will be delivered to your lead-time and budget. We follow a systematic process that ensures we develop ideas and products that are truly viable. If there’s a proven technology or process out there, we’ll evaluate it, break it, fix it, and then if it can be incorporated into your design, we’ll make it work.

FONT DESIGN

CREATING FONTS AND BRAND CHARACTERS

We don’t sell fonts; we create characters that complement your brand’s culture. A custom designed font is a great solution for helping your company stand out from the competition. Bespoke fonts can add a unique voice to all the visual elements of your brand’s presentation. Prototype Font Design fills a specialised requirement in the market and offers a unique and personalised font design service. We don’t limit ourselves to working with corporates alone; we work equally with independent media producers, advertising agencies, design studios and publishers, locally and throughout the world.

CASA FORTE GROUP

More than ever, we’re living in times where our hearts are ruling our heads. We seem to spend so much time looking at our screens, and remembering less and less of what we’ve seen. The things we remember most are the pictures and words that reach our hearts first… and round and round it goes, a never ending cycle. And there’s the challenge, how to figure out at what point you jump into the loop. How do you keep up as the memories fade?

The answer isn’t in the traditional disciplines of design, advertising or digital, it’s a fusion of hands-on craft and storytelling. For over twenty years, Casa Forte has been helping clients grow and evolve their brands, guiding them to the point in the loop that’s right for them. We don’t fear change, our minds are always open, and as the life cycle of brands evolves and changes form, so do we.